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God of Battles

Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam

Peter Partner shows how the ideal of the crusade, "God's War", came to permeate medieval Christendom, and how it influenced later Western societies. Above all, this book examines the fear that Islamic fundamentalism excites in the west and warns against allowing crusading war propaganda to affect our judgment today. 24 illustrations. Maps.

CHAPTER THREE Islam and War In the early years of the seventh Christian
century, a member of a merchant family of the city of Mecca in South Arabia
named Muhammad began to be visited by divine messages. They told him to rise
and to warn those around him to change their lives to conform with the
revelations being made to him by Allah, or his messenger. Muhammad once
described some of his revelations as coming from 'behind a veil':1 he was thus in
the literal sense, as the ...